Maintaining plant can form a significant proportion of a site’s overall operating cost. Analysis of this cost often reveals excessive spend resulting from unplanned plant failure, repetitive repairs, lack of in-house skills and training, and unavailability of the correct spare equipment to make repairs. Beca AMEC can help implement an overall maintenance management strategy that will address the root cause of these issues.
Typical symptoms of poor maintenance management include:
- business focus is on spending capital to fix issues
- manufacturing plant performance is not well known, or even measured
- performance is well below world-class benchmarks
- maintenance costs have been cut year-on-year to reduce manufacturing costs
- manufacturing schedules are based on performance that is well below design, to allow for downtime, slow running or poor quality
- asset registers are inaccurate and there are no long-term asset management plans
- data is inaccurate or collected inconsistently, leading to disregard of information and reports.
Beca AMEC maintenance management starts with a review of current practices to identify strengths and weaknesses. Beca AMEC then examines the following areas, all of which are required in an effective maintenance management system:
- Maintenance Strategy
- Maintenance Measurement and Reporting Systems
- People Management